I understood what you said exactly and thats why I also added the part where new licenses would also happen as a single customer datapoint accessing many organizations over my career. The more datapoints for them the better.
I look forward to the day when Krita or GIMP’s sole purpose for existing isn't Adobe dug their own hole.
Can't speak for GIMP but Krita is growing exponentially, :)
Ohh my bad
Aside from that, their code base is somewhat quirky, which would definitely increase the cost of porting